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2023 Most Popular Online Library Science Bachelor's Degree Schools

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$25,986 Avg Salary
$30,125 Avg Student Debt

In 2020-2021, 6,538 people earned a degree or certificate in library science, making the major the #34 most popular in the United States.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Most Popular Online Library Science Bachelor's Degree Schools ranking. This report analyzed 3 schools in the United States to see which ones were the most popular online bachelor's degree programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Online Library Science Bachelor's Degree Colleges.

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Southern Mississippi is a great place for library science students working on their online bachelor’s degree. Located in the small city of Hattiesburg, Southern Miss is a public school with a large student population.

About 87% of the students majoring in library science at the school are women while 13% are male.

Read full report on Library Science at University of Southern Mississippi

Out of the 3 online programs at schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine at Augusta landed the # 3 spot on the list. UMA is a small public school located in the town of Augusta.

Women make up 92% of the library science majors at the school.

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Library Science Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Library & Information Science 5,950
Library & Archives Assisting 467
Other Library & Archives Assisting 121

Related Major Annual Graduates
Education 327,871
Social Sciences 205,984
Psychology 195,678
Communication & Journalism 120,571
Family, Consumer & Human Sciences 55,820

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to John Cummings.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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